A gran has spoken of the trauma of losing her hands and feet to sepsis – because of a paper cut.

Marguerite Henderson, of Crosshill, Fife, spoke of the devastating impact that having her limbs amputated has had on her, saying after her latest op: “I could only move my head. I thought, ‘what’s the point in me being here?’

“You take everything for granted and one day it’s not there.”

The Record told in March how the 55-year-old was struggling to come to terms with the news she’d lose her limbs to blood poisoning.

Marguerite had her feet and hands amputated during the operation (Image: UGC MSN)

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She said: “My hands and feet were dying on me. It was awful, horrific.

“I had a full time job, I was out all the time, now everything has gone.”

Marguerite endured surgery to remove her hands last month and had surgery to remove her legs two weeks ago.

The gran-of-two went to a pharmacist in February after a blister developed on a tiny paper cut on her hand. She was advised to see a doctor but had to cancel her appointment when she woke up feeling ill.

The next day the red weather warnings brought by the Beast from the East saw appointments axed at her doctors. She was told a to contact NHS 24 at 6pm if she still felt unwell.

But when her son-in-law Sean saw how ill Marguerite was, he rushed her to hospital in his car.

Soon after arriving at the hospital, she lost consciousness. Medics said she’d have died if she had waited till 6pm.

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Marguerite was treated with powerful antibiotics and placed in a coma for a week. In March, her daughter Kim, 27, told the Record she watched her mum, who worked in family support at Fife Council, being put on a ventilator as her organs began to fail.

She said: “Mum was in a coma for a week but to the doctors’ amazement she finally came round.”

The family launched a campaign to buy her a bionic hand, prosthetic legs and electric wheelchair which has raised almost £33,000 of its £80,000 target.